Missed Job Interview due to illness, HELP!

cloud_cuckoo_land

Hiya,

I'm really hoping someone can help with this, I'll explain briefly.

My husband currently works for an IT company in the warehouse, he's been with them for nearly a year. He recently applied for an internal position which pays better. He applied via the inter department email system that he can only access at work, when he is working in the office - which is a couple of days per week. He applied last Friday.

Over the weekend he came down with the flu and called in sick on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. On the Wednesday, he was told that if he didn't come in he would miss the interview that had been arranged for him at 9.30am (Which, of course he didn't know anything about!), he was still quite unwell and definitely couldn't make it into work.

When he went back to work on the Thursday, he asked a senior member of staff about a new interview time, they said they'd speak to the interviewing member of staff. Then at 5:45 this evening, when most people had gone home, another member of staff showed him a copy of an email sent to my husband but cc'd to him - basically saying that because he wasn't available on the day, he was not successful.

My question is, is this legal and if not, what can we do about it?

Many thanks in advance if anyone has any advice.

Cuckoo. xx

mildred1978

cloud_cuckoo_land wrote: »

Hiya,

I'm really hoping someone can help with this, I'll explain briefly.

My husband currently works for an IT company in the warehouse, he's been with them for nearly a year. He recently applied for an internal position which pays better. He applied via the inter department email system that he can only access at work, when he is working in the office - which is a couple of days per week. He applied last Friday.

Over the weekend he came down with the flu and called in sick on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. On the Wednesday, he was told that if he didn't come in he would miss the interview that had been arranged for him at 9.30am (Which, of course he didn't know anything about!), he was still quite unwell and definitely couldn't make it into work.

When he went back to work on the Thursday, he asked a senior member of staff about a new interview time, they said they'd speak to the interviewing member of staff. Then at 5:45 this evening, when most people had gone home, another member of staff shows him a copy of an email sent to my husband but cc'd to him - basically saying that because he wasn't available on the day, he was not successful.

My question is, is this legal and if not, what can we do about it?

Many thanks in advance if anyone has any advice.

Cuckoo. xx

Absolutely legal, no requirement for the interview panel to reconvene. Your husband has (unfortunately) missed the boat.

cloud_cuckoo_land

Really??

Thats a shame, my husband is sure that he has a right to be interviewed if he had no choice but to miss it.

Especially as he had no way of knowing he had an interview because he was not at work to be told.

Not questioning your knowledge, just want to be certain.

Cuckoo. xx

bluenoseam

Nope, he missed the interview, the reason is not an issue, he did not attend and they are not under any obligation to reconvene.

cloud_cuckoo_land

Ok, Thank you for your help. xx

Kynthia

Sorry there are no laws to cover this situation. It's just unfortunate.

keyser666

Think it is his fault personally. I have had the flu since last Sunday, temperature, a continuous tickly cough every few minutes (which I was conscious about both on the train and in the office) as well as a chesty chest with the obligatory phlegm etc and proper suffered as some nights I couldnt get to sleep due to the cough and nothing has shaken it so far although I feel like it is subsiding now.

Yet I still went into work every day last week up at 6am and back at 8pm. Think he should have gone in personally, would have shown me if interviewing that he is committed as such and wanted it.

Running_On_Empty

Real flu is not a tickly cough and if you'd had real flu you would not have been able to get out of bed.
What you've had is man flu.
Now, back to the bloke who missed his interview because he had real flu...

Torry_Quine

keyser666 wrote: »

Think it is his fault personally. I have had the flu since last Sunday, temperature, a continuous tickly cough every few minutes (which I was conscious about both on the train and in the office) as well as a chesty chest with the obligatory phlegm etc and proper suffered as some nights I couldnt get to sleep due to the cough and nothing has shaken it so far although I feel like it is subsiding now.

Yet I still went into work every day last week up at 6am and back at 8am. Think he should have gone in personally, would have shown me if interviewing that he is committed as such and wanted it.

Sorry but if you could go to work then it wasn't flu!:o

Voyager2002

keyser666 wrote: »

Think it is his fault personally. I have had the flu since last Sunday, temperature, a continuous tickly cough every few minutes (which I was conscious about both on the train and in the office) as well as a chesty chest with the obligatory phlegm etc and proper suffered as some nights I couldnt get to sleep due to the cough and nothing has shaken it so far although I feel like it is subsiding now.

Yet I still went into work every day last week up at 6am and back at 8am. Think he should have gone in personally, would have shown me if interviewing that he is committed as such and wanted it.

So instead of resting for a couple of days and getting over it, you will probably be unwell for the next month. And if your job requires any real intelligence then you are probably performing poorly while unwell. And worst of all, you have been spreading the germs far and wide: to people in your workplace and to everyone on the same bus and train as you. That includes people older and frailer than you, who will be made a good deal more unwell than you from your germs because their ability to resist is lower...

All in all, I am sure that Al-Qaeda is grateful to fools like you who do their job for them: and probably do a good deal more damage then they can manage.

keyser666

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Sorry but if you could go to work then it wasn't flu!:o

Well as you are not my doctor I think I will have to disagree with you there as I was told otherwise on Thursday morning.

Voyager2002 wrote: »

So instead of resting for a couple of days and getting over it, you will probably be unwell for the next month. And if your job requires any real intelligence then you are probably performing poorly while unwell. And worst of all, you have been spreading the germs far and wide: to people in your workplace and to everyone on the same bus and train as you. That includes people older and frailer than you, who will be made a good deal more unwell than you from your germs because their ability to resist is lower...

All in all, I am sure that Al-Qaeda is grateful to fools like you who do their job for them: and probably do a good deal more damage then they can manage.

Oh here we go what a stupid statement, this is nothing more than people who would have a virus for days before it is apparent and manifested itself but yet the person or persons have already transmitted it everywhere.

I have made sure I have worked away from my team and any visits to sites I have completed the work remotely. My work needs above intelligence and need to be on point but that is not an issue

By the way I am not a fool, nor liked to any cell